The barred window in the room where the Gants live looks over "a vacant lot where farmers tethered their teams on market days" - which suggests proximity to the Square - "and where sparrows whirled in gusty clouds about the horse and mule droppings and the refuse from the grocery store" that occupies the building's ground floor (371). As they "hitch or unhitch" their teams, the farmers regularly see Zilphia's face in the window, "holding to the bars" (371).
The "dressmaking shop" that Mrs. Gant buys when she moves to Jefferson is also where she and Zilphia live for "twenty-three years" (371). It is one of the businesses and offices in Jefferson that are on the second story of the buildings around the Square, reached by an outside flight of "stairs to the street" (374); on its ground floor the building houses a grocery store (371). Mrs.
At the start of the story, Jim Gant lives with his wife and "two-year-old" daughter Zilphia in a "small house" somewhere in "the settlement" that the story refers to as "the Bend" (369, 371).
This country store is a gathering point for the inhabitants of "the Bend" (371), the "settlement" where Gants live at start of story (369). As "Varner's store" in "Frenchman's Bend," this location appears in 18 other Yoknapatawpha fictions. In "Miss Zilphia Gant," the unnamed store where Gant's "halfwitted" assistant tells and retells his grievance to the locals is not described (368), but the settlement is: "It was less than a village, twenty miles from the railroad in a remote section of a remote county" (369).
When the painter who married Zilphia in "Miss Zilphia Gant" marries again, he lives "in a neighboring state" (379). Mississippi is bordered by Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and Tennessee. Tennessee is the most likely of these, in part because the newspaper where Zilphia learns of his new marriage is probably a Memphis paper, and also because the detective agency she hires to keep tabs on his new life is in Memphis. For these reasons we have put this location in Tennessee.
